GA Tacoma Owners BS Thread

That’s quite a load! Do you have stock suspension in the rear?

 

Glad it was close for you! I was fortunate enough to keep my paid off 2500hd in the driveway for such an event. Been paid off for about 10 years now. It's old but "Gets Her Done"

 

It's the stock leaf pack off of a third gen with the Icon 3 leaf progressive pack.

 

When I see 2500 or 3500 I think man I could use one of those. Haha

 

update.. got the Diode dynamic one.. it fixed it. thank you for the help

 

Line the inside of the bed (walls and bottom with landscaping fabric. Creosote will leach into the soil. Fabric will minimize the contact and will help to keep the soil in.
Build gravel foundation for the bed, so water drains away. Wood will last longer. Mix peat moss and water pearls in the soil to help with water retention.

<----has 5 of 4'x20' raised beds and putting in 3 more this spring.

 

Thank you for the advice sir!

 

We have fruit trees, bushes, raised beds. PM anytime, if you have questions.
Put in 2 more apple trees and 2 more pears this fall.

Link to the water pearls added. If you can, mix them and leave in the bucket with water overnight. A quarter of a cup will absorb 5 gallons of water.

https://www.amazon.com/Soil-Moist-JCD-030SM-3-Pound-Granules/dp/B00061T03G

 

Nice man. We have pear and peach trees. Black berry and grapes. We are looking at blue berries and straw berries. But the beds are for her flowers.

 

We have blackberries, blueberries, rosehips, paw-paws, zhilomost (honeyberry), apples, pears, peach, nectarines, almond (not producing, flowers too early), apricot (same, flowers too early), strawberries in the raised beds (with drip irrigation, makes fertilizing easier), cherries, plums.
Raised beds for veggies. Wife has a bad back (back surgery), so raised beds make gardening easier for her.

Tried grapes for 3 years (seedless red and green), lost several vines to the diseases, and gave up.

 

Headed to Cloudland Canyon this weekend. Any solid food recommendations between Gainesville & Lafayette?

 

Wow. You guys have it going on! We hardly have time for what we do have. Haha

 

I've eaten at a good Mongolian place in Dawsonville but that was probably 10 years ago. I don't go that direction often. Haha. Off subject but haven't I seen you have FN 5 strar wheels? I'm looking at getting some and was wondering of the -25 offset with 265 sits pretty close to flush with the fender?

 

We have 3 kids at home who have to be kept busy. They are becoming good at shoveling gravel and dirt.

 

@Barsoom, Just curious what part of NW GA are you in? Do you have luck with the Peach trees producing? I had two peach trees when I lived in Marietta and if they produced they would stay rock hard and green and rot on the trees. Always heard growing up Peaches are hard to do right.

 

Those -25 offset wheels are gonna give you some healthy poke. Meaning your tires edge will be outside of the fender.

edit:
Pic below is a -10mm offset wheel with 265/70/17 tires.

 

West of Douglasville.

Peaches are finicky. They are susceptible to red leaf rust. Need to be sprayed several times a year.
Tree needs to be trimmed in the winter to a bowl shape, leaving the middle almost empty. They need air flow, or fruit will start rotting on the tree.

I would guess your trees did not have enough water and food, hence the hard fruit. In the summer each of my fruit trees gets a 100 gal slow soak a week (I collect and store about 10K gallons of rain water). Fertilizer spikes in the fall and spring. Liquid Miracle Grow leaf and ground feed in the summer (early in the morning or later in the evening). 3" of non-acid mulch (no pine straw or pine nuggets) to hold the moisture in the ground.
Also, if a lot of fruit has set, it needs to be thinned out by hand. Tree can feed only so much fruit mass. So you get a lot of small peaches, or fewer large peaches.
And pit trees (plums, peaches, cherries) LOVE wood ash. I save ash from the fires when I clear the land (use vegetable oil as a starter) and feed the trees with it, periodically.

 

I'm riding on 265/75/16. They stick out a bit. I've not measured in a long time. I added the short RokBlokz mud flaps and they stick out 1.5" beyond those. It's not trashy looking. Any farther and I'd think so, but I'd prefer if they tucked under the truck a little more. That said, it sure handles better on north Georgia mountain roads with the wider tracking.

 

Thank you. I really like the look of those wheels in the grey color. I like the deep concave of the spokes and the zero offset is more flat. The deep inset reminds me of the 80s trucks. I'm fine with a little poke but yeah I agree I don't want it to look trashy.

 

IIRC, they make another 5-star with less offset. I dig these wheels for the same reason you mentioned. 80s Beach Truck style. I love how deep they look. They’re also similar to some of my favorite old school NASCAR wheels.

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